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2:01 PM on Thursday, August 14

Federal judge strikes down Education Department guidance aimed at ending diversity programs at schools and colleges

1:59 PM on Thursday, August 14

Virginia Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin says Virginia’s economy is thriving after ending its fiscal year with high revenues

1:56 PM on Thursday, August 14

Orthodox Christians across Alaska are taking part in three days of prayer for peace, ahead of a summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin

1:21 PM on Thursday, August 14

Most stocks fell on Wall Street following a disappointing update on inflation

1:13 PM on Thursday, August 14

An Oregon university says Nike co-founder Phil Knight and his wife Penny Knight have pledged a record $2 billion to its cancer center

1:11 PM on Thursday, August 14

A federal judge has struck down key parts of a Florida law that allowed parents to remove books they found objectionable from public school libraries

1:08 PM on Thursday, August 14

Nike co-founder Phil Knight and wife give record $2B to Oregon university’s cancer center, university says

12:57 PM on Thursday, August 14

Texas Democrats have moved closer to ending a nearly two-week walkout that has blocked the GOP's redrawing of U.S. House maps before the 2026 election

12:51 PM on Thursday, August 14

Texas Democrats announce plan to end nearly 2-week walkout over GOP’s redraw of US House maps

12:44 PM on Thursday, August 14

Florida wildlife officials have given preliminary approval to a plan to reopen Apalachicola Bay for oyster harvesting, five years after the waters were closed due to dwindling shellfish populations

12:27 PM on Thursday, August 14

A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to stop sharing personal data of Medicaid enrollees with deportation officials

12:15 PM on Thursday, August 14

Louisville police are searching for a suspect who fatally shot a woman walking with her child near a bus stop

11:25 AM on Thursday, August 14

The Justice Department says it will seek the death penalty against a member of the cultlike Zizians group accused of killing a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Vermont

11:16 AM on Thursday, August 14

The Supreme Court has refused for now to block enforcement of a Mississippi law aimed at regulating the use of social media by children

9:27 AM on Thursday, August 14

A man charged with a felony for hurling a sandwich at a federal law-enforcement official in the nation’s capital has been fired from his job at the Justice Department

9:05 AM on Thursday, August 14

Ohio State and Pittsburgh each placed three players on The Associated Press All-Time All-America football team and four other schools have two players each on the first team

7:03 AM on Thursday, August 14

Florida Republican Gov_ Ron DeSantis’ administration is preparing to open a second immigration detention facility at a state prison in north Florida, as a federal judge decides the fate of the state’s holding center for immigrants at an isolated airstrip in the Florida Everglades dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.”

5:37 AM on Thursday, August 14

U.S. wholesale inflation surged unexpectedly last month as President Donald Trump’s sweeping taxes on imports are pushing costs higher

9:23 PM on Wednesday, August 13

A network of clinics that provides health care in Maine asked a judge on Thursday to restore its Medicaid funding while it fights a Trump administration effort to block federal money for abortion providers

8:46 PM on Wednesday, August 13

Los Angeles area students are returning to class under a cloud of apprehension after a summer of immigration raids and amid worries that schools could become targets in the Trump administration’s aggressive crackdown